Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Agreement was impossible. Turkey set covetous eyes on Mosul, synonym for oil; Britain set faith on the adage "possession is nine points of the law." Turkey recognized one boundary line; Britain another. Result: Both became engaged in recriminations because the one had invaded the other's territory...
...Bernard Shaw, the champion of vegetarians, has recently made his gastronomic faith the topic of a campaign speech. The road away from revolution, says he, is through meat. Meat is a soporific, vegetables put fire in the eye. As examples he cites the bull rhinoceros, the elephant, and the human vegetarian philanthropist. The most effective example, however, is Mr. Shaw himself. On a garden diet he turns out more invective than any other man in England...
...main quarrel with Fundamentalism is its lack of faith in Man" was the heading which the Reverend Charles Francis Potter, pastor of the West Side Unitarian Church in New York City, summed up his Modernistic views at an address in Phillips Brooks House last night, held under the auspices of the Harvard Christian Association...
...outbreak of rationalism is not to be interpreted too literally. Perhaps it is another protest of the revivified Oriental mind against the same and unreligious institutions which seem inevitably to choke religion. This fresh violence of belief may be the painful force which will free the living core of faith from the incrustations which the centuries attach to it. This protest against authority in the name of intellectual self-assertion may dissolve the effluxes, which stagnate about the fountain of primitive creed...
Engineering added a temporary milestone to its faith when one Benjamin B. Odell, a former Governor of New York, drove a rivet. He completed the longest single span in the world. The great span, borne on 18-inch cables, is 1,623 ft. long, and dangles 155 ft. over the Hudson River about six miles north of Peekskill, between Anthony's Nose and Bear Mountain. With its approaches, it cost $6,000,000 and will be open after January as a toll bridge. Except for the railway bridge at Poughkeepsie, it is the only vehicular bridge across the Hudson...